Work in Progress: New restroom plumbing rough-in nearly complete. Sheet metal duct rough-in has begun on the first floor and the new restroom areas. Electrical floor boxes are 75% complete in 223. Sanitary drain and toilet carriers are complete in the second floor. 3rd floor abatement for the restrooms is complete. Poured the new addition floor slab was poured on 3/15/2016. Looking ahead: Continue with sheet metal duct installation on the first floor. Pending electrical shutdown on 3/19/2016. Water line installation will begin throughout the building to new restr...
Work in Progress: Chilled water service in the 3rd floor east mechanical room is 95% complete by EOB on 3/18. Will be ready for cooling system startup on 4/15. Currently insulating the chilled water pipes in the 3rd floor wast mechanical room. Steam reducing station in the 3rd floor east mechanical room is approximately 10% complete. Completed the installation of the temporary roof duct work. Electrical demolition work in the tunnels is complete. Containment is in place for the abatement of AHU #2 in the 3rd floor west mechanical room. Looking ahead: AHU#2 will...
Community members as well as Kent State University faculty, staff, alumni and students are all invited to attend the Faculty Lecture Series, hosted by the Kent State Alumni Association, from March 30 through May 3. Free and open to the public, the events span disciplines from all eight Kent State campuses. Marquita Rodgers, program coordinator of alumni relations at Kent State, says the Faculty Lecture Series was created in 2013 to showcase the interests, research and academic talents of the university鈥檚 faculty. 鈥淎ttendees will have the opportunity to learn about the multidiscipli...
As part of the RecycleMania competition, Kent State University鈥檚 Division of Human Resources will partner with the Office of Sustainability to host Shred-Mania on Wednesday, March 30, from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Kent State Ice Arena parking lot. Shred-Mania is open to all students, faculty, staff and the Kent community. Shred-Mania allows participants to recycle unwanted paper documents using a secured, onsite document destruction service. Materials permitted at Shred-Mania include documents, drawings, photos, blueprints, coupons, tickets, checks, magazines, spiral notebooks, hangi...
Beginning April 4, Kent State University will participate in the On the Move Challenge, a new 12-week, national corporate competition. This competition is like no other, in that the points you earn as an individual will get your team (Kent State) one step closer to a designation as one of the most active employers in the country! Each week, employees will have an opportunity to learn more about the benefits of physical activity, assess themselves and their progress, share successes and goals with other participants, boost peers for bonus points and 鈥 ...
The Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University will expand its successful Traveling Stanzas project with $125,000 in new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. The Knight Arts Challenge funds ideas that engage and enrich Akron through the arts. Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders is a partnership between the Wick Poetry Center and the Visual Communication Design program at Kent State to facilitate a global conversation through the intimate and inclusive voice of poetry. The grant will ...
College of Communication & Information
Senior applied communication major, Jessica Buck, landed an internship with Pro-Model and Talent Management as their social media coordinator. In this position, Buck is responsible for managing the company鈥檚 Facebook, Google+ and Yelp pages along with their blog. Some topics she covers in the blog include, successful Pro-Model and Talent stars, audition tips, instructor profiles and fashion and beauty tips. 鈥淚 love the things I get to do and the environment I get to work in,鈥 Buck said. 鈥淐urrently, I am writing a blog on overcoming adversity and celebrities who dealt with extreme circumstan...
Since the time of the early Buddhist kings, Tibetan monks have practiced analytic meditation - where they memorize a Buddhist text and then attempt to deepen their understanding of this material by joining in debate pits lead by a senior monk, known as the challenger. 鈥淭he challenger is sitting on a mat or cushion as he poses questions to a defender and the defender must come up with a logical and coherent argument to respond to the question,鈥 said David Fresco, Ph.D., professor and director Kent State鈥檚 Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation Laboratory (PERL) and co-director of the...
Last semester, four members of the nursing faculty at Kent State Salem, along with 15 nursing students, headed west for leaning opportunities that cannot be taught in a typical classroom. The group traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southern South Dakota to interact with members of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe. The reservation is home to about 40,000 people, half of whom are members of the Oglala Lakota Nation. The average income for a resident of the reservation is between $2,600 and $3,500 a year, meaning that more than 97 percent of the residents live below the poverty level...